netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2] net: fold dev_disable_lro() into netdev_fix

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 09:57:49 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] net: fold dev_disable_lro() into
 netdev_fix_features()

On Thu, 12 May 2011 17:29:07 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> >  	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_BRIDGE_PORT;
> >  
> > -	dev_disable_lro(dev);
> > -
> >  	list_add_rcu(&p->list, &br->port_list);
> >  
> > -	netdev_update_features(br->dev);
> > +	netdev_change_features(dev);
> >  
> >  	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
> >  	changed_addr = br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(br);  
> 
> Why netdev_change_features() here?  I thought that was primarily for use
> when vlan_features may have been changed.

Setting IFF_BRIDGE_PORT in priv_flags causes change_features
to disable LRO.

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